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Kampen for borgerrettigheter
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Rosa Parks ble arrestert
Afroamerikansk dame som nektet å flytte seg i bussen for en hvit mann
Det valget forandret verden, ETT valg!
Det ble starten på mange demostrasjoner i USA og Rosa blir kalt "mother of the freedom movement" -
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1960s
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Martin Luther King jr døde
King jr fikk nobels fredspris for å lede The Sivil Righst Movement og the Bus Boycott i 1955
den yngste i hele verden som har fått en -
1970s
-Movements from the 60s continued
- Civil rights for minorities
- Women's rights
- The end of the Vietnam war
- Environmental issues became important
- Recession o -
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the 1980s
- Ronald Reagan became the president - he conservative USA
- The Berlin Wall - USA against The Sovjet -> the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold war ended - USA was the worlds only superpower
- Music videos and pop icons like Madonna and MIchael Jackson came
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The 1990s
- Short war in the Middle East - Operation Desert Storm, Usa protected Dubai and Kuwait from Irak that wanted their oil, and they made it!
- USA did it better economically
- A lot of immigrants came
- Huge techonologically change our personal and professional lives At the end at the decade (tiår) the reality TV became popular
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The 21st century
- The computer crash? did not happen
- 9/11, 2001 the terror struck on USA soil, changed the world -> 4 planes were a part of it, 2 crashed in twin towers on Manhatten, one in Pentagon and the fourth just crashed
- Attacks on the Taliban in Afghanistan
- The worldwide economic recession hitted USA hard and millions of people struggled
- 2008 BArack Obama became the first African president